“…the Shakespeare Company makes a telescoping rod/reel outfit that comes in bubblegum pink with Disney princesses showcased across the handle, as well as a pink tackle box sporting images of Jasmine, Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora (whoever the hell that is), and Snow White.”

I wrote an open letter to myself, detailing all my personal, often strange, shortcomings as a youth desperate to stand out from the crowd, with oversized clown sweaters from the Goodwill, secondhand hospital scrubs, and hair every color of, not a rainbow, per se, but perhaps a young child’s finger painting of a rainbow.